Honestly, I haven't kept up on this story much, I'm really just barely reading about it now. I'm supposed to be having as low stress of a life as I can right now, and with the way my pregnancy hormones are fluctuating, that isn't an easy thing for me under the best of circumstances right now. So I've been avoiding the news as much as I can for the past while. But my point is, I did hear that everyone was told to evacuate the New Orleans area at least a couple days if not more before the storm hit, did I hear right? In fact, my 2 adult kids told me that my 2nd husband was down there with a friend of his on a vacation and was told to evacuate several days before the storm hit and did evacuate. Apparently he called the kids to tell them he was evacuating and where he was going instead. If people were told to evacuate and refused to do it, well call me heartless but I just can't manage to drum up a whole lot of sympathy for them. If the storm had hit suddenly without warning and people were truly caught off guard, well that would be an entirely different story. Ken and I were talking about this a little while ago and he said that New Orleans is normally about 10 feet below sea level and the storm center people were predicting 30 foot waves. We agreed it shouldn't take much brains to figure out what a bad combination that is and to get your hiney the heck out of there when the authorities started telling people to evacuate. But I do feel for any animals who were left trapped because they obviously had no choice. I will check out that Noahs wish organization as well. diveboss@xmission.com wrote: I feel worse for the animals that were trapped and couldn't escape the storm than I do those animals who loot, or, refused to heed the warnings in the first place and could have left. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com